DEFECTS, FAULTS
Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain these as the forbearing charity whereby we put up with one another's defects.
- St. Robert Bellermine
There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.
- St. Robert Bellermine
DESIRE
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
- St. Philip Neri
DETACHMENT
Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
- St. Philip Neri
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
- St. John of the Cross
<>If you purify your soul of attachment to
and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you
deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding
what is certain in them.
- St. John of the Cross
- St. John of the Cross
- Bl. Mother Teresa
THE DEVIL
Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
- St. Angela Merici
The Devil never runs upon a man to seize him with his claws until he sees him on the ground, already having fallen by his own will.
- St. Thomas More
Another weapon the devil employs is immodesty, or more frankly, impurity. My dear children, be on your guard. The devil will tempt you with bad books, bad thoughts, or the foul conversation of a companion. When any such fellow approaches you, say to yourself, This is a minister of Satan. And let these wretches who indulge in foul conversation say to himself, I am a minister of Satan because I help him ruin souls!
- St. John Bosco
...[d]o you want to outwit the devil? Never let him catch you idle. Work, study, pray, and you will be surely overcome your spiritual enemy.
- St. John Bosco
When I see the devil has stopped ensnaring souls, I too will cease looking for new ways to save them from his wily deceits.
- St. John Bosco
What I recommend most earnestly is not to lose heart when you are tempted. Do you wish to succeed? The best way is to reveal the temptations to your spiritual director immediately. The devil loves darkness. He always operates in the dark because he knows that if he is discovered he is beaten.
- St. John Bosco
The usual snare with which the devil catches the young is to fill them with shame when they are about to confess their sins. When he pushes them to commit sins, he removes all shame, as if there were nothing wrong with it, but when they are going to confession, he returns that shame magnified and tries to convince them that the priest will be shocked by their sins and will no longer think well of them. Thus the devil tries to drive souls to the brink of eternal damnation. Oh, how many lads does Satan steal from God – sometimes forever – by this trick.
- St. John Bosco
DRESS
Proud is many a man who looks down on his neighbor because the wool of his gown is finer! Yet as fine as it is, a poor sheep wore it upon her back before it came upon his back, and all the while she wore it, she was after all still only a sheep. And why should he now think himself better than she was simply by having that wool-----wool that, even though it is now his, is still not so truly his as it was truly hers?
- St. Thomas More
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
- St. Jerome
We must practise modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.
- St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
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